Analysis of News Source 5.2

Analysis of News Source 5.2

Basics: 5 pm Wednesday, 3/36/13, KARE 11, Anchors: Randy Shaver, Julie Nelson

Story 1: Police arrest man, crime, anchors, Scott Seroka

Story 2: Best Buy cutting 400 jobs in Richfield, jobs, Anchors, Allen Costantini

Story 3: Yahoo employees told they can no longer work from home, jobs, Anchors, Jeffery DuMars

Newsworthiness

1.      Oddity/Uniqueness: It’s pretty intense to see a woman who has gone missing and her husband being arrested. It is really scary and serious.

2.      Prominence: The man is being accused of murdering his wife

3.      Human Interest: I think that a lot of people would want to know about this because there could be a really bad guy walking around on the streets if it is true

4.      Significance: It is big for anyone who is living around the area and possibly knew this women

5.      Proximity: The guy could be dangerous and getting him off the streets is a good idea

6.      Timing: The timing doesn’t really matter compared to the other things

Analysis of News Source 5.1

Analysis of a News Source, 5.1

 

Basics: 5pm on Monday, Feb. 25, KARE 11, with anchors Julie Nelson and Randy Shaver

Story 1: Mound Westonka varsity hockey players get suspended over harlem shake video; sports/politics; anchors

Story 2: Police are looking for a St. Paul women around Mall of America; crime

Story 3: Investigation continues on a 16-year-old girl from Maplewood; crime

 

Newsworthiness

 

Story focus statement: A harlem shake video got a varsity hockey team suspended

 

1- Timing: The timing is when the varsity team is about to play in the section tournament

 

2- Oddity/Uniqueness: It is strange because now the JV hockey team is going to have to play in the varsity teams place just because of a video

 

3- Significance: The Mound Westonka hockey team is going to be very affected and how their fans look at them

4- Proximity: It happened in Minnesota and hockey is really big in Minnesota

5- Human interest: I think depending on the person it could really be interesting. A lot of people in Minnesota heard about this and were curious and especially teams this team will be competing against after it happened.  

6- Prominence: Since the athletes aren’t famous it doesn’t affect much.

Weekly Response 4

Weekly Response

Week 4

Story: Disappearing jobs

Total run time: 2:58 seconds

1.      Close up on the video sign

2.      Cutaway shot on the video store

3.      Medium close shot of owner

4.      Cutaway of outside the video store

5.      Cutaway of inside of video store

6.      Medium close up of shopper

7.      Cutaway of different movies

8.      Medium close up of another shopper

9.      Close up of owner

10.  Cutaway of outside the video store

11.  Over the shoulder of owner

12.  Cutaway of shopper

13.  Close up of owner

14.  Close up of puppy

15.  Close up of front desk

16.  Medium close up of lady

17.  Close up of lady talking

18.  Medium close up of lady looking at movies

19.  Wide shot of lady looking at movies

20.  Cutaway of the front of the store

21.  Extreme close up of just eyes

22.  Cutaway to movies being checked out

23.  Close up of owner

24.  Cutaway to candy sign

25.  Mid shot of owner scanning movies

26.  Cutaway of movies

27.  Close up of owner

28.  Mid shots of workers

29.  Close up of owner

30.  Cutaway of store

In this video I saw a ton of different camera shots. A lot of them were close up shots of the owner and back to somebody looking at movies or just a close up of a stack of movies. The camera didn’t stay at one place for too long. When the owner was talking it would have gotten really boring if the camera was on him the whole time he was talking. The camera left him and went around the store a lot. There were a lot of dramatic shots of the front of the store and things being sold that made the story a lot more interesting. Overall this story would have been very boring if the camera stayed in one place. It is good that the camera kept of going back to the main guy talking. I also liked how at one point a shopper was being interviewed to get a different view point.

Weekly Response 3

Weekly Response

Week 3

 

This whole book is about what it takes to be a good story teller and a good writer. I like how he says to not use a passive voice while writing but use an active voice. I agree with this because I think it will make it a lot more interesting. I agree with how he says to avoid uncommon terms. Don’t try to be fancy with your writing but try and keep the reader interested. When I am reading something I’m not looking for how smart the writer sounds, I’m reading it for interest and for something to pull me in. I like how he says to make the writing conversational. I think that is important to get the reader’s attention. If it sounds more like a conversation it is easier to picture somebody in front of you saying it. This all fits in with me as a writer because I never think of it from the reader’s point of view. I think I write to get it over with and not make it very conversational.

This article was written really well. It used a lot of the examples that Dotson said would make good writing. I loved the way the article was started. It drew my attention in right away, not only because I a huge hockey fan but because who wouldn’t be interested in a story about $50,000? One of the big things that stood out to me right away was it was very conversational. It asked a lot of questions that were quickly answered after they were asked. All the quotes make it a little more interesting to read. Instead of a solid paragraph explaining what happened I like how he breaks it up. Also he used an active voice and it pulled me in right away. I think it is a little cliché he gives the money back. I don’t think there are many teenage kids or especially 11 year old kids who would give $50,000 back if they won it. After everything he thought of before doing it you would think he would follow through. I feel like in all stories the person ends up doing the right thing but in real life I don’t know if that would actually happen or not.

To start off I think this family is crazy. I couldn’t imagine having that many kids. They must really love football if they want every kid to go through all the same things. I’m sure there is a ton of pressure on you as a kid to be exactly like your older sibling. The news broadcast was really well done. It was conversational and I felt like I learned a lot about the family because I felt like I was the one interviewing them. They tell you everything you need to know without hearing the interviewer ask the questions. I think there was an active voice because it was talking us through the whole story. I was surprised she was disappointed that all of the kids were done. I understand having something in your life for a long time and then it suddenly being done but at the same time you would think she would be excited to have some free time.

Weekly Response 2

Weekly Response

Week 2

 

I noticed a few things about the way Dotson writes. He makes his writing very personable. Dotson also uses a ton of detail to describe everything. He writes a lot about all the different camera shots you could do. Also he says how journalism is changing and reporters need to become better at capturing stories. I thought it was a pretty easy read and he made it easy to fallow along. It wasn’t just same text book that is impossible to read without falling asleep. Dotson did a very good and detailed job of giving us his tips on how to be a successful journalist.

Something I learned from Dotson is that you should start writing in the middle instead at the beginning. He said it is a lot easier. I think this is very interesting because I would never think to do that on my own. I also learned that you shouldn’t go into an interview with a plan. You should go into it and have a conversation with the person you are trying to learn things about, and you will find out a lot more. I think this could be challenging for some people but if you are a journalist you have to be good at holding conversations with people.

There are two columns for the scripts. On the left side of a script there is a title, location, duration time of the script, correspondent, and producer. It shows what the reader sees. All of the writing is capitalized and sticks out. On the right side, there are detail writing segments. Some of the writing is just a sentence and some of the writing is big paragraphs. This side shows what the reader hears.